{"id":3251,"date":"2021-02-08T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T02:19:57","slug":"balan-wonderworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/balan-wonderworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Balan Wonderworld"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are thrilled to announce that the engineering team at CRI Middleware has developed a special video playback technology to support the upcoming game Balan Wonderworld<\/a> (you can read the full press release here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Developed by the Balan Company – a spin-off of Square Enix -, Balan Wonderworld is a wondrous action-platformer themed around a mysterious musical theatre. The stars of the show use special abilities from a multitude of characterful costumes as they adventure in the bizarre and imaginary land of Wonderworld.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Since the appearance of the main character varies greatly, the in-game movies needed to reflect these changes, which would normally have led to a drastic increase in movie data size. To avoid this, CRI Middleware provided a customized version of Sofdec2, our video encoding and playback solution, including a multi-character feature, that allowed to reduce the size of the video data needed by 60%!<\/p>\n

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Sofdec2<\/a> is a high-quality and feature-rich movie playback system. It leverages the full capabilities of each platform and allows your game to seamlessly mix movie playback and gameplay, by offering many features such as: simultaneous playback of videos, transparency, subtitles, display on 3D surfaces, and more! Do not hesitate to contact us<\/a> if you believe that your game could benefit from such features.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we encourage you to download the demo version of Balan Wonderworld<\/a>, available on PS5, PS4, Switch, Xbox Series X\/S, Xbox One, and Steam (availability may vary based on your region). The full game is slated for release on Match 26th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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